Table of Contents

Table of Contents

What is Google Apps?

How to Manage Your Google Apps Account

How To Administrate your Google Apps domain

E-mail Client Configurations

What is Google Apps?

Google Apps is a Web based e-mail, calendar, and document management system. Many companies and organizations use Google Apps as their e-mail solution because of the large storage space, spam protection and ability to login from anywhere with a Internet connection. Google Apps uses the standard gmail.com interface which you already may know and love but utilizes your domain name(yourname.com) instead of gmail.com. Google Apps was developed as a replacement for the costly and clumsy Microsoft Exchange. Google Apps is considered a cloud application with no need for a in house server to maintain, backup and administrate.

There are many other features of Google Apps which you or your administrator can choose to turn on, such as chat system for everyone on your domain name, a integrated to do list, and many other features which are added regularly. Google Apps Standard is currently free and gives you 50 users, unlimited e-mail groups(e-mail forwards or aliases) and 7 gigs of storage space. There is a Premier edition available which allows for more users, more storage space, no advertisements and the ability to use Googles API system which gives you even more capabilities. The current price for Google Apps Premier is $50 year per user. So if you had 5 users it would cost you $250.00 a year.

Google Mail

Obviously the most used Google App, utilizes the same interface as gmail.com and gives you all the benefits of the Postini spam filter, the ability to automatically apply labels(similar to Outlooks folders) to e-mails, a filtering ability to automatically forward a e-mail, send a canned response or have certain e-mails skip the inbox all together archiving it. Archiving takes all of the e-mails in your inbox and stores them out of sight but easily accessible by searching or clicking on a label.
Google Mail grows with features regularly so it would be impossible to list all of the features and abilities. You are able to add certain features from Google Labs, features developed by Google employees but not yet integrated automatically.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is the Web based calendar system that comes with Google Apps. Google Calendar allows you to create multiple calendars viewable at once with the ability to share these calendars with other Google Apps and Google users. Depending on the permissions you set, those users can view your calendar, add events, restrict the even to busy hiding the details of the event, or even publish the calendar publically on your web site.
Google Calendar like every Google App of course is searchable which helps to remember times and dates of meetings and such. It has several different views, such as day, week and month as well as a agenda view.

Google Docs

Google Docs is the document management system that comes with Google Apps. Google Docs is designed to replace Word, Excel, PowerPoint, as well as the ability to create Google Forms. The best way to describe why Google Docs is great is to use this analogy. Lets say we are working on a proposal in Word, a budget in Excel and a presentation in PowerPoint. Before you would compose these on one computer and then e-mail them to someone you wanted to collaborate with. They would then make changes and send it back to you and if there is a 3rd person involved then there are 3 copies. With Google Docs, you simply share documents with other users and grant them permission to edit or view. If multiple people are working on a document at once you a handy chat window pops in the browser to allow you to communicate with them in real time.

Once a document is finalized, you can then export it as a Word document, PDF and any other format you need. You also have the ability to e-mail the document as a attachment so the recipient would even know that the document was created with Google Docs. Like all Google Apps you can quickly search for a document as well as create folders and sub folders to allow for your own personalized organization.

Google Sites

Google Sites allows you to build Web sites utilizing their WYSWIG web site builder. Its mostly commonly used for Intranets(internal company web sites) which allow someone with no html knowledge to quickly and easily update the web site. The pages allow for commenting, uploading of documents and can help manage a large team.

Administrating your Google Apps Account

How Do I Login To Google Apps?

To sign into your account simply go to https://mail.domain.com where domain.com is your company or organizations domain name. Type this into the address field in any Web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Be careful to only enter the beginning part of your e-mail address since the domain name will already be displayed.

Examples:

https://mail.association_name.org/

https://mail.compyname.com/

https://mail.business.net/

https://calendar.association_name.org/

https://calendar.compyname.com/

https://calendar.business.net/

https://docs.association_name.org/

https://docs.compyname.com/

https://docs.business.net/

How Do I Change My Password?

To change your Google apps password follow these steps.

Login to your Google apps account.

Click Settings in the top corner and then Accounts.

Click Google Account settings

This will take you to your Google password page.

Administrating Your Google Apps Users

How Do I Manage my Google Apps Users?

Once you login, click the cog icon in the top right and then click Manage This Domain then click Organization & Users. There you can create and delete user accounts, change passwords and assign administrative rights.

You will need administrator rights to Manage E-mail accounts.

Important: Your password are located in your Welcome e-mail

How Do I Delete A User?

To delete a user from your Google Apps domain:

Click the Organization & Users tab.

Check the box next to the user (or users) you want to delete.

Click More actions > Delete users

When prompted, confirm that you want to delete the user

If necessary, delete the user from your Gmail contacts list.

Remember that it takes up to five days for a user to be deleted so make sure to delete any unnecessary accounts before your Google Apps Premier free 30 day trial ends.

How Do I Change A User Password?

To change a user’s password for a user on your Google Apps domain:

Click the Organization & Users tab.

Click on the user

Click the Change password link

Enter in the new password and click Save Changes.

You can also make that user choose their own password after they first login.

How Do I Create E-Mail Aliases For Users

Every user has a primary email address, which is the email address created when the users account was created and the address the user uses to log into Google Apps. Google Apps enables to you create additional email aliases for a user.

An email alias is an alternative email address that points to an existing user account. For example, the user bill@subsidiary.com might also want to receive email addressed to william@subsidiary.com. If you create william@subsidiary.com as an email alias for bill@subsidiary.com, Google Apps will deliver email for both of these addresses to the same Gmail inbox.

To set one up simply login to your mail account at http://mail.yourdomain.com substituting yourdomain.com for your domain.

Click on Manage This Domain in the top right corner

It will ask you to login again for security reasons.

Click on Organization & Users and then click on the users name youd like to add a nickname to.

Click Add a nickname, enter in the beginning part of the e-mail address and click Save Changes.

This will instantly setup your nickname and youll now be able to receive e-mail at both these email addresses in the same inbox. You only get 1 nickname per e-mail address. You can make groups to have a e-mail address forward to multiple e-mail addresses.
Google Groups
Google Groups allow you to setup a e-mail address that forwards to multiple e-mail accounts.

Setting Up Google Apps On Your iPhone

If youre running software update 1.1.3, please note that tapping the Gmail button will automatically configure Gmail IMAP. Heres how to set up POP:

Tap Mail from your iPhones Home screen.

Tap Other.

Select IMAP from the tab menu.

Enter your name, email address, and password in the appropriate fields. The Address field should be your full email address (username@gmail.com). Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format username@your_domain.com.

Under Incoming Mail Server, fill in the Host Name field as imap.gmail.com. Google Apps users, enter the server names provided, dont add your domain name in this step.

Under Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), fill in the Host Name field as smtp.gmail.com.

Tap Save. Now youre done!

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